Akamai: Global Average Broadband Speeds Up By 25%, U.S. Up 29% To 6.7 Mbps

Globally, the speed for broadband connections is steadily on the rise: according to Akamai's Q1 2012?State of the Internet report, it's now at 2.6Mbps, compared to 2.3Mbps in the last quarter, and a rise of 25% on a year ago and a reversal of the 14% decline of last quarter. South Korea continues to remain the connection king, with an average connection speed of 15.7Mbps. The U.S., meanwhile, doesn't make it into the top-10 countries (it's ranked 12th) but at least it's speeding up: it is now at 6.7Mbps, up by 29% on last year and 17% from the previous quarter. But as broadband continues to improve, so do attacks. Akamai notes in its study that attack traffic is on the rise, concentrating in particular regions and ports, with Asia Pacific, led by China, accounting for 42 percent of attack traffic originating from Asia Pacific; and the top 10 ports for attack traffic accounting for 77% of all attacks (up from 62% last quarter).

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Apple has temporarily plugged the security loophole that allowed Wired editor Mat Honan to be brutally hacked over the weekend.

Honan's hacker was able to reset Honan's Apple ID password over the phone using the last four digits of Honan's credit card number.

The hacker was then able to access Honan's Twitter account, Gmail, and remotely wipe Hona'ns iPad, iPhone, and MacBook. Apple has decided to suspend over-the-phone Apple ID resets, at least for the next day or so, according to Honan's latest update on Wired.

The hacker was able to get Honan's last four credit card digits from Amazon, which makes that information public.?Amazon has reportedly closed that loophole too.

UPDATE:?Apple just reached out to us with an official statement regarding its policy for resetting Apple ID passwords. The company confirms it has temporarily suspended over-the-phone password resets and encourages customers to change their passwords online.?

Here's the statement from Apple spokesperson Natalie Kerris:

We've temporarily suspended the ability to reset AppleID passwords over the phone. We're asking customers who need to reset their password to continue to use our online iForgot system (iforgot.apple.com). This system can reset a password in one of two ways ? either have a password reset sent to an alternate email address already on record or challenge the customer to answer?security questions they had previously set up. When we resume over the phone password resets, customers will be required to provide even stronger identify verification to reset their password.

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